Food-preparing utensil



A r. 10, 1923. I 1,451,342

- P. MENDEZ FOOD PREPARING UTENSIL Filed Oct. 7, 1922 Patented AprxlO, v i i v V v i v PnEsILIANo IVIENDEZ, or ALMY, NEVADA.

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' FOOD-PREPARING nrnnsrn I Application filed October 7, 1922. Serial No. 5.93940,

To allwh'omitmay concer handle 14 through a 'longitudinalslot 29 in Be it known that if, PREsILIANo Marinas, the latter. a citizen of the Republic of Mexico, resid- Formed on the top of the sleeve 25, miding at Valmy, in the. county of Humboldt way of its length, are a pair of ears 30, and and-State of Nevada, have invented certain to these ears a double armed locking dog 31 new and useful Improvements in Food-Preis pivoted. The widened. ends 31 of this paring Utensils, ofwhich the following is a dog 31 are adapted to be engaged with lugs specification. a 32 projecting inwardly from the sides of This invention relates generally to uten- 1 the slot 29 and spaced therealong preferably 1 sils used in the preparation of food,having double the distance it isdesired to move the a more particular reference to a device for use knife 26 each'time it has taken a strip of in slicingand peelingfruits or vegetables, peeling from the article being'peeled. The the invention having for an object the pro.- lengthof thedog 31 is so proportioned with vision of a novel and efficient device of this respect to 'the spacin'g of the lugs32 as to a 15 kind which may be constructed at smallcost, cause one end to lie midway between, longi- For further comprehension of the inventudinallyconsidered, two pairs of lugs when tion, and of the objects and advantages the other end is engaged with 'another pair.

thereof, reference will be had to the follow- In the use of the device the shear; blades ing description and accompanying draw- 10, 11 may be used: for slicingor cutting.

1 I 20 ings, and to the appended claims in which fruit orvegetables. To use the device in. i

the variousnovel features of the invention peeling, the screw 19 is driven'back and the are more particularly set forth. article to be peeled is placed with oneside Fig. 1 of the drawings is a face view of in engagement with the pointed lug 18 and my improved utensil. the screw 19 is then moved forward until its 25 Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view taken appointed end 21 engages with the otherside proximately along the line 22 of Fig. 1 of the article, thus rotatively supporting the and illustrating the means for. shifting the same I peeling knife. 1 The sleeve 25 is then slid along the handle Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of this 14, toward its pivoted end, and locked there- 30 means, this view being taken alongthe line to by depressing one end of the dog 31. The

3-3 of Fig. 2. two handles are then pressed together with As here embodied my improved utensil one hand until the knife 26 engages the arcomprises a pair of shear blades 10, 11 piv- .ticle which is then rotated with the other oted together as at 12 and provided with hand. After a strip of peeling has been rehandles 13 and 14 respectively, these handles moved the dog 31 is reversed, the spring 27 99 being curved to generally semi-circular advancing the knife, and a second strip of shape and having finger grips 15, 16 on their peeling is removed by rotating the article, ends. Formed on the handle '13 near its these operations being repeated as often as pivot point, is a rearwardly' extending necessary; a T pointed lug 18, while a screw 19 is threaded The. dog 31 preferably has sufiicient fricthrough one side of the finger grip15 in tional engagement with the ears 30 to realinement with said point, this screw having main in whatever position it may be ada knurled head 20 for adjustment purposes, justed to, and I may provide the sleeve 25- and a pointed inner end 21 adapted to (300p with handles 35, whereby it may be moved erate with the lug 18 in supporting the artialong the handle, the dog being adjusted'to cle to be peeled. neutral position with both ends disengaged.

Slidable along the handle 14 is a sleeve 25 Having thus described my inventionwhat having fixed to its inwardly facing side an I claim, as new and desire to protect by Letinclined knife-blade 26 which is adapted ters Patent of the United States is as fol- 50 for peeling fruit or vegetables The handle lows:

'14 is hollow as shown and accommodates 1. A device of the class described coma coiled tension spring 27 one end of which prising a pair of handles pivoted together,

is fixed to the handle near the'finger grip 16, means onone handle for rotatively supportwhile the other end is attached to a pin 28 ing an article to be peeled, and a knife slidfixed to the sleeve and extending into the ably mounted on the second handle. 110

2. A device of the class described comprising a pair of handles pivoted together, means on one handle for rotatively supporting an article to be peeled, and a knife slidably mounted on the second handle, said handles being of approximately semi-cir cular shape.

3. A device of the class described comprising a pair of handles pivoted together, means on one handle for rotatively supporting an article to be peeled, and a. knife slidably mounted on the second handle, a

spring urging said knife along said handle,

and means for locking said knife at fixed points on said handle.

4. A device of the class described comprising a pair of handles pivoted together, means on one handle .for rotatively sup porting an article to be peeled, and a knife slidably mounted on the second handle, a

spring urging said knife along said handle, and means for locking said knife at'fixed points on said handle, said means comprisinga double ended pawl adapted to engage stop lugs on the handle.

5 A device of the class described comprising a pair of handles curved to semicircular shape and pivoted together at one end, one of said handles being hollow, a sleeve slidable. along said hollow handle, a knife-blade fixed to said sleeve, a coiled tension spring in said hollow handle connected at one end thereto, a pin fixed to said sleeve and projecting through a longitudinal slot in said hollow handle and having the other end of said tension spring connected thereto, a double ended dog pivoted to said sleeve,

7 lugs on the walls of said slot adapted to be engaged by said dog, and means on the other handle for rotatively supporting an article to be peeled.

6. A device of the class descrihed'comprising a pair of handles curved to semicircular shape and pivoted together at one end, one of said handles being hollow, a sleeve slidable along said hollow handle, a knife-blade fixed to said sleeve, a coiled tension spring in said hollow handle connected at one end thereto, a pin fixed to said sleeve and projecting through a longitudinal slot -1Il sald hollow handle and having the other end of said tension spring connected thereto, a double ended dog pivoted to said sleeve, lugs on the walls of said slot adapted to be engaged by said do handle for rotative ly supporting an article to be peeled, said means comprising a pointed lug and an alined screw.

' In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

PRESILIANO MENDEZ,

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